Theodore Roosevelt on Strength Quotes

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."

"To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed."

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President... is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."

"Physical thickness is of no use if there is not mental and moral strength back of it."

"Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive."

"The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as his wife."

"Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike."

"No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body, to risk his well-being, to risk his life, in a great cause."

"The people of the United States suffer from periodical financial panics to a degree substantially unknown to the other nations, which approach us in financial strength. There is no reason why we should suffer what they escape. It is of profound importance that our financial system should be promptly investigated, and so thoroughly and effectively revised as to make it certain that hereafter our currency will no longer fail at critical times to meet our needs."

"The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win must be in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats."

"The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight."

"The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly."

"Our aim is not to do away with corporations; on the contrary, these big aggregations are an inevitable development of modern industrialism."

"I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life."

"When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all."

"I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head."

"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

"I am a part of everything that I have read."

"Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength."

"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!"

"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."

"No people ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue."

"When you are at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

"With self-discipline most anything is possible."

"Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind."

"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month."

"Is America a weakling, to shrink from the work of the great world powers? No! The young giant of the West stands on a continent and clasps the crest of an ocean in either hand. Our nation, glorious in youth and strength, looks into the future with eager eyes and rejoices as a strong man to run a race. Letter to John Hay, American Ambassador to the Court of St. James, London, written in Washington, DC (June 7, 1897)"

"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism."

"The light has gone out of my life."

"Unless a man is master of his soul, all other kinds of mastery amount to little."

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."